El Palacio summer issue reading

Name: El Palacio summer issue reading
Start: 2025-09-28T14:00:00-06:00
Location: FUSION ABQ

Schedule

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

FUSION ABQ | Albuquerque, NM

FUSION | 708, located at 708 1st St. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Please join us for a reading panel and conversation about three featured articles in El Palacio’s fall issue. The event is free and open to the public. Featured readings include:
David Correia’s article about the Gallup Coal Wars in 1933-35 that involved striking miners, Communist labor organizers, murder, kidnappings, deportations, and more!
Petra Salazar’s essay that pays homage to her hometown of Española on its centennial, including the annual pilgrimage to Chimayό, lowrider culture, and the culture of giving.
José Rivera, Levi Romero, and Enrique Lamadrid’s article about the molinitos (gristmills) of Northern New Mexico that helped to sustain village life in the Spanish Colonial period.
Following the readings, editor of El Palacio, Emily Withnall, will facilitate a Q&A. Copies of the magazine and the contributors’ books will be available for sale.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
David Correia writes about New Mexico history, labor geography, and environmental politics. He is a professor in UNM’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the author of six books, including Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico.
Petra Salazar is a poet, educator, and culture worker from the Española Valley in Northern New Mexico. A former diesel mechanic turned community arts organizer, her debut poetry collection, Harsh Terrain, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.
José A. Rivera is Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning at UNM. His research deals with comparative water institutions globally and mutual aid societies of the American Southwest. He is the author of Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest and other publications.
Levi Romero is Professor Emeritus in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at UNM. He was selected as the Inaugural New Mexico State Poet Laureate, 2020-2023. He is the author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works, among other publications.
Enrique R. Lamadrid is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Spanish at UNM and editor of the prizewinning Querencias Series at UNM Press. He is a commissioner of Álamos de los Gallegos Acequia Association in Albuquerque’s North Valley, and he coedited Water for the People: Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context with Jose A. Rivera.